College Football Playoff

Should the NCAA design and implement a playoff for college football? And if so should it be an And one format, an 8 team playoff, or larger?

I am honestly torn on this but ultimately I would prefer a playoff.

The reason I am torn is basically a loss of tradition if you go with a playoff. Because even if you send teams to a certain location with a name you know it isn't the Rose Bowl.

Yeah you could have two teams play there and call it the Rose Bowl but it wouldn't have the same traditions as the current format offers.

But I think ultimately I would like to watch meaningful games the last week of December and into January instead of teams with nothing to play for.

Now the question is how do you do it.

I would be content with an 8 team playoff but I think it would create more debate until it got changed.

I say create a 12 team playoff.

The problem with an 8 team playoff is that if you allow the conference champions in than you are eliminating teams like Boise and Utah. And if you don't allow conference champions in than you are keeping Oregon State out while you allow USC (who lost AT Oreg St) in. And none of those things seem like they would get accepted.

In a 12 team tournament you take the 6 BCS conference champions and then you take the next 6 highest ranked teams no matter how many per conference. You rank them all based on their BCS ranking.

That would give you 12 teams. Of which 4 would get a first round bye.

You start play the week before Christmas at the higher seeds campus. Then those 4 winners would move on to play the top 4 seeds the weekend of Christmas at their home stadiums.

And then on New Year's Weekend you would have 2 games at either the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, and Rose bowl locations. And then one week after that you would have the National Championship game at one of those locations.

This year (based on CURRENT rankings and standings) you would have this:


1. Alabama
2. Texas Tech
3. Texas
4. Florida

5. Oklahoma
6. USC
7. Utah
8. Penn State
9. Boise State
10. Cincinnati
11. Oregon State
12. Maryland

Games would be Dec 20:

Maryland @ Oklahoma 1 pm ET
Oregon State @ USC 7 pm ET
Cincinnati @ Utah 10 pm ET
Boise St. @ Penn State 4 pm ET

And then you would continue on with the tournament. I would watch all of those games with no problem. I doubt the first one would be close but the other three would be very interesting.

And I don't want to hear that it would disrupt classes cause Basketball is playing at this time. I don't want to hear about Christmas vacation cause with the traditional bowl season the kids would already be at their game location, and the money.....PLEASE....there would be SOOOO MUCH money associated with a tournament that the colleges would have trouble storing it all!

Obviously this is going to change with games coming up in the next few weeks so I will revisit this often and show what kind of games we would get to see with a tournament.